Stories

D&D is "a folk practice for generating stories that are both visionary and ephemeral,” a practice which can help create, or sustain, novelists. - LitHub

Michael Crichton was so powerful that he won a “frozen rights” contract, one that even follows him after death - and may tank a proposed, but unauthorized by his estate, ER spinoff. - Fast Company

“Steeped in a neo-Romantic sensibility that owed as much to John Keats as to the Beat Generation and Bob Dylan, Mr. Kristofferson’s work explored themes of freedom and commitment, alienation and desire, darkness and light.” And then he found a second career in Hollywood. - The New York Times

The current controversy isn’t (to mix countries) the industry’s first rodeo with the classic. - The Observer (UK)

Why? Money. “Just to be straight up, a lot of the companies wanted to figure out ways to invest less in programming. Narrative podcasts are very expensive to make.” Chat podcasts? Not so much. - Wired

“I’m never going to not be hungry to find parts. … It’s almost a survival thing for me where I need to act or I’ll just die." - The New York Times

Nothing good. “Is a commercial art gallery willing to risk litigation if it dares to offer one of Warhol’s Prince or Marilyn silk-screens ‘for sale?’ What if another commercial gallery across town is offering a retrospective survey of Goldsmith’s rock star photos or Korman’s publicity shots?” - Oregon ArtsWatch

She helped redefine what that meant, too, especially for women. “The face and body may change, but the spirit need not falter, the desire and ability to do what you love need never abate.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

It only happens in selected screenings (sorry, small-city America). But “it’s more of a feature than a bug, and I salute the audacity.” - Vulture

Fifty albums, that is. The nearly 90-year-old trumpeter, planning a 2025 tour, says, "Music is a healing vibration that fills me.” - NPR

And then, the novelist explains, there’s Gertrude Stein - and William Trevor. - The Guardian (UK)

“In an escalation after months of labor talks, the musicians walked off the job on Friday for the first time since 1978.” The strike lasted for three and a half hours. - The New York Times

And, supposedly, quite a bit more feminist. The second issue of the relaunch has “'the explicit aim of moving away from the male gaze’ and a view to showcase ‘more diverse and inclusive explorations of desire.’” - The Guardian (UK)

Rivers is the one who inspired Niki de Saint Phalle’s iconic Nana figures, but in addition, she was "a bohemian saloniste whose lifestyle was a kind of art making.” - The New York Times

“The Internet Archive is one of the most important historical-preservation organizations in the world. The Wayback Machine has assumed a default position as a safety valve against digital oblivion.” - Wired